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Protocol for National Substance Misuse Rehabilitation Cohort Study

Title: Protocol for National Substance Misuse Rehabilitation Cohort Study Authors: Maria Gannon, Neil McKeganey & Gordon Hay School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Glasgow Published: 12th December 2011 Pages: 39 File Size: 557kb Format: Portable Document Format (PDF)

Executive Summary

The National Advisory Committee on Drugs (NACD) commissioned the Centre for Drug Misuse Research at the University of Glasgow to design a protocol for a cohort study examining rehabilitation among Irish substance misusers.

This report has two key elements; a review of the literature and the proposed study designs. The literature review focuses on previous cohort studies involving samples of substances misusers from representative treatment modalities. These key longitudinal studies examined treatment effectiveness through the measurement of various outcomes related to recovery. The review also examines duration of treatment; its relationship with positive outcomes and the identification of optimum length of stay for different treatment modalities as well as examining rehabilitation focussed studies.

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